Bang! is a wild west-themed card game similar to a spaghetti western designed by Emiliano Sciarra and released by Italian publisher daVinci Editrice in 2002.

It's released in 2002, but it has just become popular in China in the last 3 years, well known as Sanguosha(a modification base on Bang! and Romance of the Three Kingdoms).

mk12327

Yeah, I've tried both of the games mentioned. It is a rather addictive game suitable for playing in a group. But personally, I prefer the Chinese "SanGuoSha" version better. It seems to be more richer in terms of content, though the game mechanics is rather similar. By the way, for the SanGuoSha, there is even an online version only available to China (it requires a Chinese identification of some sort to activate the account)

Mr_Howl

Bang! has been on my wishlist for a while now. Glad to hear it's addictive.

mk12327

Mr_Howl wrote:

Bang! has been on my wishlist for a while now. Glad to hear it's addictive.

By the way, be careful how you play the game though. You would not want to win the games but lose the trust your friends have in you! My personal advice: It is just a game. Have fun, but don't bother too much about winning if you think your social life is worth more than winning some games.

*People who win a lot in these kind of games tend to be thought to be cunning people*

Haha... You can say that, since I am a Chinese myself! I'm not from China though, so my cultural environment is rather different. My national language is Malay, the business / professional language in my country is English (which is my first language), and my second language is Mandarin.

I consider myself bilingual (or even multi-lingual if you consider dialects), and do know a fair bit about Chinese culture and history.

inuyasha

mk12327 wrote:

Haha... You can say that, since I am a Chinese myself! I'm not from China though, so my cultural environment is rather different. My national language is Malay, the business / professional language in my country is English (which is my first language), and my second language is Mandarin.

I consider myself bilingual (or even multi-lingual if you consider dialects), and do know a fair bit about Chinese culture and history.

I see~

drunkenkoz

The game was alright but not really all that great. I would rather play Diablo 3 then touch the game Bang!

Laro696

Hmm. Sounds interesting. Might give this a go, don't have anything else to play